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9540 Garland Road, 362 Dallas, TX 75218

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9540 Garland Road, 362 Dallas TX 75218

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  • Cajun, Creole, Seafood
    Mon-Thu 11am-10pm, Fri-Sat 11am-11pm
    $ $
    All Major Credit Cards, cash, ATM/Debit
  • Casual
    Takeout
    Dinner, Lunch
    Live Entertainment
  • Accepted, Not Necessary
    Lot Available
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A perennial winner of the Observer's "best Cajun" honor, Alligator Café is a counter-service take on South Louisiana cuisine. The restaurant"s a reliable source of boiled crawfish come mudbug season, and the popular pies tend to sell out before closing time, the East Dallas restaurant"s good cheer and boudin balls have won over eaters. The Cajun eatery also offers occasional live blues on the weekends from the likes of local luminaries like Hash Brown.








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  • Six Restaurants for a Proper Fat Tuesday

    Six Restaurants for a Proper Fat Tuesday

    By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Mon, February 11, 2013

    The Free Man Cajun Cafe in Deep Ellum is a small, dark, shotgun bar and restaurant with marginal lighting that keeps things dim, which is certainly a prerequisite for any proper New Orleans-ish bar. S... More »

  • Alligator Cafe\'s Voodoo Sauce Burned My Face Off, But it Was Worth It

    Alligator Cafe's Voodoo Sauce Burned My Face Off, But it Was Worth It

    By Whitney Filloon | Wed, July 18, 2012

    I recently mentioned to a friend that I was on a quest to hunt down the best spicy foods in Dallas, and he implored me to visit Alligator Cafe to try their Voodoo sauce, mentioning that they'd appeare... More »

  • On Fat Tuesday, Local Chefs Break Down the Fine Art and High Science of Making Gumbo

    On Fat Tuesday, Local Chefs Break Down the Fine Art and High Science of Making Gumbo

    By Lauren Drewes Daniels | Tue, February 21, 2012

    With Fat Tuesday upon us, gluttony is the single goal of the day. While lots of shenanigans will surely ensue, as they do every Tuesday in this city, don't forget to fill your ulcerated tummy with a b... More »

  • Alligator Cafe Lends Help to Its Cajun Brothers and Sisters

    Alligator Cafe Lends Help to Its Cajun Brothers and Sisters

    By Hanna Raskin | Mon, July 26, 2010

    Alligator Cafe, a Cajun restaurant in East Dallas, is dedicating 10 percent of its sales each Tuesday to the Gulf Coast relief effort. "We're hoping to collect about $15,000," says Alligator Cafe man... More »

  • Alligator Café

    Alligator Café

    By Alice Laussade | Thu, August 28, 2008

    People eating fried whole catfish with tails and everything count: 4 Cop count: 3 When you're driving around Dallas looking for a place to eat lunch on the cheap, you've gotta know what you're looking for. If the place has fancy freakin' awnings... More »

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  • 2010 | Best Cajun Restaurant

    The Alligator Café doesn't serve hurricanes, New Orleans' most popular cocktail. The chef-owned Cajun restaurant only serves beer and wine, but that's a Big Easy indiscretion easily overlooked because the food is always so damn good. Chef Ivan Pugh has crafted a spot-on menu of Cajun and Creole staples with a few unfamiliar surprises. We like to start with an order of fried green tomatoes or boudin balls and end with bread pudding or sweet potato pecan pie. For the main course, we... More »

  • 2010 | READERS' PICK BEST CAJUN RESTAURANT

    The Alligator Cafe More »

  • 2009 | Best Cajun Restaurant

    What can we say? There's a lot of half-assed gumbo sold in this town, but Alligator Café ladles out a rich, reeking stew that oozes bayou. Their red beans and rice remind you that this was never meant to be an elegant dish, but something to fill working-class bellies. And, of course, there are mudbugs in season and gator meat if you wish to venture in that direction. Their fried green tomatoes feel like they were made in some old skillet by some old grandma. It's a straightforward,... More »

  • 2008 | Best Cajun Restaurant

    Alligator-skin wallpaper, green. Lots of napkins. And helpful hints: pinch the tail, suck the head. Who'd a-thunk Cajun could be so Freudian? Such is the power of the crawdad. And of the Alligator Café with its long ropes of thick and greaseless fried alligator tail, soothing and swarthy gumbo with rings of fresh scallion embedded in this Cajun lava, plates of fried green tomatoes covered with shredded Parmesan on a bed of lettuce, and the heartiest damn red beans and rice your... More »

  • 2007 | Best Fried Catfish

    The whole fried catfish at Alligator Café never ceases to inspire envy in other diners who didn't have the sense to order it. First, it's large. The breading is perfect: fried golden cornmeal so fresh and crisp the meat inside is still steaming. Dip each yummy piece in cocktail sauce, tartar sauce or alligator sauce. Just when you think you've gotten all the juicy morsels, you discover there's a whole 'nother side o' fish to tackle. The catfish basket comes with crispy French fries... More »

  • 2005 | Best Cajun Restaurant

    People who work downtown and in East Dallas pack The Alligator Cafe ("Quick & Cajun") for lunch and post-work munchies. Yes, they do serve alligator--fried, grilled, blackened and in jambalaya, gumbo and po-boys. But the best bets are shrimp-and-oyster gumbo, followed by a basket of fried shrimp or whole catfish. Sides go beyond French fries--dirty rice, fried green tomatoes, new potato chive salad and spicy red beans and rice. You can even drive through for a lunch deal: half a muffaletta and ... More »

  • 2005 | Best Cajun Restaurant

    People who work downtown and in East Dallas pack The Alligator Café ("Quick & Cajun") for lunch and post-work munchies. Yes, they do serve alligator--fried, grilled, blackened and in jambalaya, gumbo and po-boys. But the best bets are shrimp-and-oyster gumbo, followed by a basket of fried shrimp or whole catfish. Sides go beyond French fries--dirty rice, fried green tomatoes, new potato chive salad and spicy red beans and rice. You can even drive through for a lunch deal: half a... More »

  • 2005 | Best Root Beer

    There are people who will come to fisticuffs when debating who makes the best root beer: A&W, Barq's, IBC or Mug. Pedestrian, we say. If you've tasted homemade root beer, nothing manufactured can compare. Thank goodness for Ivan Pugh, the chef at East Dallas' Alligator Café, which makes its own root beer and cream soda at the restaurant. Served from the soda fountain in Styrofoam cups too big for the average car cup holder, Alligator Café's root beer is just right--sweet, but... More »

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    | Dallas, TX | 193 Reviews

    4
    | Wed, May 6, 2009

    Alligator-skin wallpaper, green. Lots of napkins. And helpful hints: pinch the tail, suck the head. Who'd a-thunk Cajun could be so Freudian? Such is the power of the crawdad. And of the Alligator Café with its long ropes of thick and greaseless fried alligator tail, soothing and swarthy gumbo with rings of fresh scallion embedded in this Cajun lava, plates of fried green tomatoes covered with shredded Parmesan on a bed of lettuce, and the heartiest damn red beans and rice your stomach ever rumbled to. Yes, Alligator, blow my Freudian crater.

  • svolhein
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    | Phoenix, AZ | 247 Reviews

    4
    | Wed, May 12, 2010

    Real cajun cooking, probably the best I've found in Dallas to date. Their red beans and rice are killer!

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Main Menu
New Orleans Starters
$5.95
Fried Green Tomatoes
fresh green tomatoes hand battered in buttermilk and cracker crumbs and fried to perfection
$5.95
Boudin Balls
a combination of braised pork, rice, spices and herbs battered and fried to perfection
$5.95
Fried Pickles
pickle chips hand battered in flour and fried crispy. served with ranch and 1000 island dressing
$6.95
Calamari
thinly sliced squid steak, hand-battered and tossed with lemon and pepper
$8.95
Crab Cakes
two hand made blue crab cakes cooked to a golden brown and served on a bed of pontechartrain sauce
Fresh Salads
Dressing: Ranch, Honey Mustard, Caesar, Lemon Herb Vinaigrette, Balsamic, Blue Cheese And Or 1000 Island
Small $3.49
Large $6.49
House Salad
romaine and iceberg lettuce, cucumber, red pepper, celery, tomato, black olive, and homemade croutons
Small $3.49
Large $6.49
Caesar Salad
romaine lettuce, parmesan cheese, croutons, and homemade caesar dressing
Large $8.95
Greek Salad
romaine and iceberg lettuce, olives, capers, cucumbers, tomatoes, celery, feta cheese, and lemon herb vinaigrette
Large $9.95
Catfish-ranch Salad
a large version of our side salad topped with blackened catfish and ranch dressing
Large $8.95
Muffaletta Salad
iceberg and romain lettuce topped with ham, salami, provolone cheese, olive salad, tomatoes, and croutons
Chicken
10 Pcs $7.95
20 Pcs $14.95
30 Pcs $19.95
Chicken Wings
$7.95
Cajun Or Regular Chicken Strips (4)
your choice: hand-battered chicken strips or have them tossed in our hot sauce - served with french fries and bleu cheese or ranch dressing
Specialty Entrees
$14.95
Atchafalaya
blackened or fried catfish fillets topped with your choice of crawfish or shrimp ettouffee and served over white rice
$12.95
Cajun Fettucine
hand made spicy pasta tossed with bell pepper, red onion, andoullie sausage in a roasted pepper cream sauce topped with grilled chicken
$12.95
Grilled Salmon
served over penne pasta tossed with fresh tomatoes, garlic, and creole cream sauce
$13.95
Crawfish Enchiladas
grilled vegetables, crawfish tails, and jack cheese stuffed in corn tortillas and topped with spicy cream sauce served with dirty rice and red beans
$12.95
Shrimp Ettouffee
generous portion of shrimp, vegetables, and fresh herbs in a rich sauce over rice
Fried Seafood
We Offer A Bounty Of Homemade Sauces For Your Dipping Enjoyment Which We Will Bring You 2 At A Time. They Include: Tarter, Gator, Or Cocktail Sauce, Traditional Remoulade, Ranch, Honey Mustard, Sweet & Spicy Bbq, Lemon Garlic, Blue Cheese, And About Any Hot Sauce.
$10.95
Shrimp (6)
$10.95
Alligator Tail
$10.95
Crawfish Tails
$10.95
Oysters
$10.95
Catfish Whole Or Fillets (2)
$6.95
Catfish Nuggets
Desserts
$5.95
Bread Pudding
w/ whiskey sauce
$5.95
Big Easy Chocolate Cake
$4.95
Sweet Potato Pecan Pie
$3.95
Banana Pudding

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